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A career as a professional artist called Linda MacAulay from an early age, however it wasn’t until Linda was in her 20s that she realised exactly what she wanted to be, a landscape artist. Born in Wagga Wagga in 1964, Linda spent her childhood lost in observations of the local landscape and its enticing natural beauty as a way of tuning out from a turbulent family life. “My intent was to focus on the beauty in front of me, and it was these observation skills and passion for the natural environment that led to my career as a landscape artist.” During her high school years, the art room became a second home. It was here that Linda first developed her skills and passion for painting, with the help of supportive…

MATERIALS • Canvas - 50 x 50cm • Rembrandt oil paints: – White – Black – Yellow Ochre – Ultramarine – Raw Sienna – Cadmium Red – Orange - Cadmium Yellow – Viridian • AS Odourless Solvent • AS Glazing Gel - I add this to my white paint to help make the entire painting dry faster • Spray varnish • Brushes: – No 6 Princeton flat – No 3 Princeton flat – No 2 Princeton round – Princeton rigger STEP ONE I divide the canvas into four so I can get rough placement of the main objects from the photo reference. Just using a brush, I draw in the main points with some paint mixed with odourless solvent. Nothing is done too carefully at this stage as anything can…

VAN GOGH AND THE SEASONS The National Gallery of Victoria has announced its Autumn/Winter 2017 season, including the exclusive to Melbourne, world-premiere exhibition Van Gogh and the Seasons which will open in April 2017 as the NGV’s Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition for 2017. Van Gogh is one of the most recognisable and famous names in art history, and a key figure of the Post-Impressionist movement. Van Gogh and the Seasons will feature more than forty paintings and twenty-five drawings, most of which have never been shown in Australia. Presented within sections devoted to each of the four seasons, the exhibition is curated by Sjraar van Heugten (independent art historian and former Head of Collections at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam). Tony Ellwood, Director, NGV said: ‘Van Gogh was a true…

MASTERS OF ABORIGINAL CONTEMPORARY ART – EMILY KAME KNGWARREYE Emily Kame Kngwarreye is considered one of the Western Desert art movement’s most prominent artists. She has achieved national fame through selling her vibrant and spiritual abstract artwork, making her an artistic legend. This exhibition is part of Burrinja’s Masters of the Aboriginal Contemporary Art Series, presenting an intriguing part of Australia’s most admired Aboriginal and contemporary artists. Anybody who finds solace and therapy in abstract will feel as if they are in heaven when walking through this exhibition of highly contrasting colours and hidden meanings. It wasn’t until Emily was in her seventies when she began capturing this deeply significant cultural heritage on canvas. Her energetic paintings are a response to the land of her birth, Alhalkere, north of Alice…

MATERIALS • Canvas – Good quality 10oz acrylic primed cotton canvas over 60 x 90cm stretcher bars • Brushes – Most of the large shapes are blocked in using a one and a half inch flat brush and smaller flat brushes are used to define edges. For details, I use a variety of round brushes from size 6 to 12. I use a fan brush that I trim so it is thinned to half its thickness and for feathers and details on the log. The sky was painted with couple of good quality 10cm white, synthetic ABC brand house painting brushes. One is used to apply the paint and the other is used, dry to blend. • Acrylic Paint – I mainly use Matisse Flow and Hydrocryl colours. Both companies…

The Archibald Prize is awarded annually to the best portrait, ‘preferentially of some man or woman distinguished in art, letters, science or politics, painted by any artist resident in Australasia’. Although, since its inception in 1921, the Archibald Prize has caused debate and controversy throughout the art world, resulting in a number of legal battles. JF ARCHIBALD The Archibald Prize is one of the only art prizes in the country that is acknowledged as a household name. However, JF Archibald (1856-1919), the man who launched Australia’s most famous portraiture prize, was known to be elusive and enigmatic. He avoided publicity and had no desire to become a celebrity. Born in Victoria, Archibald began a career in journalism when he was just 15. After working on a small newspaper in the…

ARTIST’S PALETTE magazine seeks to showcase the works of talented Australians producing art at a whole range of skill levels, whether they are accomplished creative people with a long history of achievements or beginners (of all ages) striving to build their identities and reach their particular artistic goals. This ‘Gallery’ segment provides a place to display pictures by people who may not have the means or the opportunity to be extensively featured in our magazine. Submissions are sought from such people for future Issues. Each issue we are pleased to display the work of another three enthusiastic artists. John Vasey John has always been drawing and sketching, but in 1999 he began painting with oil paints. In his professional life he worked as a sound engineer, Production Manager, Technical Director…

My seriousness spiked when I sold my first small painting on eBay. It sold for just $30, but that was the start for me. From that day onward I consider my paintings unfinished until they sell and live on in someone else’s life. eBay may sound like a rather unromantic start to an artist’s life, but it ended up being a perfect apprenticeship. In a couple of years I had painted hundreds of small seascapes, and this was the key to improvement - lots of painting and small works. There is no substitute for brush hours when it comes to getting better at painting. All the workshops in the world will not be as beneficial as painting many small works. I say small works because spending 100 hours on a…

I am one of those artists who have been doing art my whole life. My best days were spent in the forest looking for fairies with my Grandmother, helping her decorate cakes and listening to my Grandfather play the spoons and sing songs. It was at this time that I gained an appreciation for nature and for the beauty and wonder of animals. But as with so many latent artists, having a busy family and business life meant I never really saw my art grow in the way I wanted it to and my time was very limited. When I did get time to create, I wasn’t achieving the results I knew I wanted from my art. My husband and I own a panel beating business on the beautiful Gold…

MATERIALS • Canvas - primed Belgium linen • Spatula Che Sun, 846 made in Italy, as my larger spatula • Spatula Maimeri, size 10 also made in Italy, as smaller spatula • Brushes: – Poly/foam brushes, sizes 1, 2, 3 and 4 – Neef 460 – Indian Sable Filbert brushes. My favourite sizes to work with are 4, 8 & 10 – Da Vinci, Nova Synthetics in size 2 is my favourite brush to complete finer details – Nam Ruby Red & Filbert Synthetic are soft but resilient – Roymac Hog Hair series 1300, in sizes1 and 8, for coarser finishes • Matisse-Professional Artists Acrylic Colour:– Titanium White (Flow)– Mars Black (Flow)– Burnt Umber– Burnt Sienna– Raw Umber– Van Dyke Brown • Spectrum artists oil colours:– Titanium White– Cadmium Yellow–…